Sentence examples for become a monument from inspiring English sources

"The elevator had become a monument to his absence," he said.

In the decades since then she has become a monument, the Pallas Athena of Jackson.

He's given them loyalty and hope – he has become a "monument", as Lippi calls him.

A bookstore that has become a monument to itself, even a wildly popular monument, has lost its living essence.

That mosaic, once a restorative gesture by a kindly benefactor, has become a monument to the man Lerner never became.

During the Revolution the National Assembly announced that the building should become a monument to the arts, showcasing the nation's masterpieces.

Half-destroyed, the palace became a monument to the quake's devastation and the state's weakness.

Once recreated, the work becomes a monument, an academic exercise, a historical artifact, a paying attraction, frozen in time.

Relics were placed in a copper box buried at the base of what became a monument to Lewis and Clark.

Others are more universal, as in "The Tower," a slow-building epic describing a home that became a monument to failed romance.

By contrast, he said, a building is "a monument not to the people who died, but it becomes a monument to the brilliance of the architect".